Hurricane Erin is tracking just off the U.S. East Coast and is expected to bring dangerous storm surge, coastal flooding and ...

Hurricane Erin was taking aim at the U.S. East Coast on Tuesday evening, according to forecasters who are warning Americans ...

Hurricane Erin reached the maximum intensity on the Saffir-Simpson scale last Saturday (16), becoming a category 5 storm with winds of up to 260 km/h (161 mph).

If a storm is a Category 3, 4 or 5, it is deemed a "major" hurricane due to the potential for "significant loss of life and ...

The longstanding hurricane rating system, the Saffir-Simpson Scale, only takes into account sustained wind speeds and not the ...

Hurricane Erin raced from a Category 1 to a Category 5 storm. If Erin keeps ramping up, is there a Category 6?

With hurricane season officially underway, we explore whether or not the Saffir-Simpson scale is the best way to rate a hurricane's strength.

The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale was developed in 1971 and unveiled to the public in 1973.

At that point, the NHC uses the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale of intensity to categorize it on a scale of 1-5.

Hurricane Ian made landfall Wednesday as a Category 4 hurricane, the second-most dangerous rating on the Saffir-Simpson intensity scale. (Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun Sentinel/TNS) ...

Most recent near-misses include Cyclone Fakir in 2018, a Category 1 equivalent on the Saffir-Simpson scale, and Category 3 Cyclone Bejisa 2013.

The Saffir-Simpson Scale doesn’t capture that right now, and that is a much bigger discussion that we absolutely need to be funding and to be doing more work on, and we need to be basing it on ...